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UPDATE: Letters from Leo can now independently confirm that the meeting took place — and that the Vatican was so alarmed by the Pentagon’s tactics that Pope Leo XIV shelved plans to visit the United States later this year. Many in the Vatican saw the Pentagon’s reference to an Avignon papacy as a threat to use military force against the Holy See.

We warned you back in 1776 that it would end in tears. This is on you, France.

Americans needing 155 aircraft including bombers, Transport and dozens of fighters to do a job which the Brits could do with four SAS soldiers and a flask of tea.

I am not sure the American military establishment has fully grasped what Trump has actually done here. So let me spell it out in language even a Pentagon procurement officer can understand. Europe has been buying American weapons at a staggering rate. In 2024 alone, US foreign military sales notifications to European countries hit $76 billion. Four times the European average since 2008.  F-35s, missile systems, air defence, ammunition. All of it American. All of it coming with decades of service contracts, maintenance agreements, spare parts, software updates and training programmes worth hundreds of billions more over their operational lifetimes. Between 2020 and 2024, the United States supplied 64 percent of all European weapons imports.  That is now over. Europe has an $860 billion defence plan, and American contractors are being frozen out. The goal is 80 percent of all military purchases from European factories by 2030.  Airbus. Rheinmetall. KNDS. Saab. Leonardo. BAE Systems. They are about to receive the largest order book in the history of European defence industry. Because Trump made it politically impossible for any European government to keep writing cheques to Washington. Some European governments have discussed worries that the Pentagon could remotely disable American F-35 fighters or impose restrictions on how US weapons can be used.  When your supplier is also threatening to annex your allies, that is not paranoia. That is basic procurement logic. Trump set out to make America great again. He has succeeded magnificently. For Rheinmetall. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, siding with their common enemy, and then knocked on their door expecting them to rescue a catastrophe of its own making. You abused the UK. Threatened Canada. Tried to grab Greenland. Called the EU an adversary. Praised Putin. Hosted Kremlin officials in the Capitol. Abandoned Ukraine. And did all of it loudly, proudly, and on camera. And now you are surprised that nobody is returning your calls. You want European boots on the ground? Start by explaining why America is more aligned with Moscow than with Brussels. Take your time. We will wait. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@WarMonitor3 Royal Navy, please learn the names of things

British navy has refitted the RFA Lyme Bay amphibious landing ship with a fleet of autonomous mine hunting drones and is preparing to deploy the ship to the strait of Hormuz-Times

@WarMonitor3 Royal airforce, ffs

BREAKING: British airforce has deployed a Beech Shadow specialised intelligence craft involved in supporting special forces operations in the general area where Russian tanker Litney prospect was just spotted sailing through.

@WarMonitor3 The Royal Navy, there is no British navy

BREAKING: The British navy will lead a coalition to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

🚨 UK troops downed 14 drones in Iraq last night, the busiest night since Iran war started – UK defence officials. The drones were shot down by laser-guided Martlet missiles from Rapid Sentry launchers (originally procured in secret) and operated by RAF Regiment.

The Strait of Hormuz will be controlled by me and the Ayatollah😎😁

The news that Orbán’s people inform Moscow about EU Council meetings in every detail shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. We’ve had our suspicions about that for a long time. That’s one reason why I take the floor only when strictly necessary and say just as much as necessary.

Brilliant 😄

@unfinishedaaron @PlayStationUK British people

@PlayStationUK Who on earth is the target market for this?

It was time for Thomas to leave. He had seen everything. You know the theme tune, Thomas & Friends: Wonders of Sodor is out now on PS5.

@SolvitaMak33619 @txgermanbre 78% of the USA is English speaking and should therefore be ruled by the English or go back to England.

@txgermanbre Around 90–95% of Narva residents are Russian-speaking. Ethnic Russians make up roughly 80–87% of the population.

I have a confession. I have been kind of insane about monitoring the Ukraine war since Feb of 2022, and I have spent the last three years using AI simulations and modeling from over 100 years of war data on the European continent. Im worried about what my model simulation predicts & this was one of them

Confucius says: “If you call your allies cowards in February, don’t expect help in March you stupid cunt”.

@RonnieAdkins That’s stormshadows gig

ATACMS sunk a sub.

Dubai has always disgusted me. The equivalent of blowing your tax return on garbage. The Emirati conception of wealth, and broadly that of the Middle East, is their own gaudy oriental attributes smashed together with hyper globalized capitalism. What you get is this tasteless, ghetto, poor man’s idea of a rich city, a parody of prosperity. When westerners think of wealth, they don’t picture mirrored gold plated supercars idling outside luxury malls. They think of Tuscan hill towns with terracotta roofs and cypress lined roads. They think of private islands in the Mediterranean, old money estates in the English countryside, the French Riviera, the Pyrenees, the Swiss Alps, Lake Como, the evergreen forests of British Columbia. They think of inherited castles, stone villas, vineyards older than entire countries, libraries with first editions, oil paintings accumulated over centuries, discreet marinas with teak deck sailboats, not LED lit yachts rented for Instagram. They think of silvers and patinated leather. Handmade Oxford shoes. Tailored linen and wool suits cut in Naples or Savile Row. Heirloom watches. Baroque and classical architecture in Vienna and Paris. Romanesque cathedrals. Renaissance frescoes. Marble busts in quiet courtyards. Wealth as continuity, not spectacle. They think of French and Italian cuisine. Four course meals with seasonal ingredients, Bordeaux and Barolo chosen for the vintage, white tablecloths, polished cutlery, deliberate pacing. Long lunches. Private members clubs with dark wood panelling. Galleries, opera houses, patronage of the arts. Discretion. They don’t think of roided out Iraqi dudes with tapered fades reeking of cologne driving a Tesla or a Lambo, hauling around a harem of dead broke Slavic or South American models whose chests they poop on for 10k a piece on some rented yacht in the Gulf. They do not think of Indian slaves to wipe their ass while pretending it is entrepreneurship. They do not think of influencer culture masquerading as aristocracy. Everything about Dubai feels like excess without depth. Record breaking towers built for headlines rather than permanence. Designer logos as personality. Gold leaf as a substitute for taste. A desert theme park for people who confuse spending with stature. It is wealth as performance. Loud, transactional, and historically empty. A city trying to cosplay old money without the culture, restraint, or civilizational weight that made Western wealth signify anything beyond raw cash.

@seanspicer You’ve been insulting our war dead and sacrifices, why should we help

just a reminder, our good buddies the British refused to allow the US military to operate out of any of their bases

If young men don’t want to be drafted to fight in Kamala’s and Cheney’s 3rd World War they better get out and vote for Trump.

Remember that I predicted a long time ago that President Obama will attack Iran because of his inability to negotiate properly-not skilled!